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Disney, playing the whimsical Barrie tale for out & out fun as well as freewheeling fantasy, has crammed it with pell-mell adventure and capering slapstick. By stressing caricature, the movie avoids much of the cute picture-postcard look that has oversweetened some of Disney's previous films. Ornamented with some bright and lilting tunes, it is a lively feature-length Technicolor excursion into a world that glows with an exhilarating charm and a gentle joyousness...
...Stooge (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is the seventh and most subdued of the movies ground out in the last three years by the zany comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.* Stressing story instead of unadulterated slapstick, The Stooge plays it for chuckles rather than belly laughs. Dean is a song & dance man with an accordion and a swelled head, who is only a dim light on the Great White Way until lame-brained Jerry becomes his comic foil...
...White Suit (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International). Alec Guinness as the inventor of an indestructible fabric in a British-made blend of slapstick and social satire (TIME, April...
Married. Joan Fontaine, 35, cinemactress (Rebecca, Ivanhoe); and Collier Young, 44, Hollywood producer; both for the third time (her first: Actor Brian Aherne; his second: Cinemactress Ida Lupmo); after a slapstick beginning (he lost the license, she lost her trousseau, both missed their honeymoon plane); in Saratoga, Calif...
...adapted by Eric Ambler from Arnold Bennett's 1911 novel The Card and directed by Ronald Neame, The Promoter steers a spry course between slapstick and social satire. The picture not only provides Guinness with a subdued, well-rounded characterization but also gives him an opportunity to indulge in a full measure of comedy falls-from hurtling headlong into a canal atop a careering van to racing around in an old cart behind a runaway mule. Glynis Johns as a dancing teacher and Valerie Hobson as the countess stroll attractively through their roles. One of the Bursley townsfolk remarks...